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Archaeology of African plant use / / editors, Chris J. Stevens [and three others]
| Archaeology of African plant use / / editors, Chris J. Stevens [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press, Inc., , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Disciplina | 561.196 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
StevensChris J
FullerDorian Q |
| Collana | Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London |
| Soggetto topico |
Plant remains (Archaeology) - Africa
Agriculture, Prehistoric - Africa Antiquities, Prehistoric - Africa Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-315-43401-6
1-61132-976-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | African archaeobotany expanding : an editorial / Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walaldé / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme -- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi -- Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Höhn and Katharina Neumann -- Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen -- Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura -- Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham -- Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia: the impact of the savannah package / Dorian Q. Fuller -- Islands of agriculture on Victoria Nyanza / Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley -- Archaeobotanical investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi / Ingrid Heijen -- Prehistoric plant use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain): an example of the disappearance of agriculture in an isolated environment / Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodrøguez and Águedo Marrero -- Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa: developing a database for North Africa, the Sahara and the Sahel / Ruth Pelling -- The archaeobotany of farming communities in South Africa: a review / Alexander Antonites, Annie Raath Antonites -- Linguistic evidence and the origins of food production in Africa: where are we now? / Christopher Ehret -- African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history / Roger Blench -- Leaving a lasting impression: arable economies and cereal impressions in Africa and Europe / Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller -- The use of plants in iron production: insights from smelting remains from Buganda / Louise Iles. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453220203321 |
| Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press, Inc., , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Archaeology of African plant use / / editors, Chris J. Stevens [and three others]
| Archaeology of African plant use / / editors, Chris J. Stevens [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press, Inc., , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Disciplina | 561.196 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
StevensChris J
FullerDorian Q |
| Collana | Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London |
| Soggetto topico |
Plant remains (Archaeology) - Africa
Agriculture, Prehistoric - Africa Antiquities, Prehistoric - Africa Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-315-43399-0
1-315-43401-6 1-61132-976-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | African archaeobotany expanding : an editorial / Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walaldé / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme -- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi -- Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Höhn and Katharina Neumann -- Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen -- Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura -- Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham -- Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia: the impact of the savannah package / Dorian Q. Fuller -- Islands of agriculture on Victoria Nyanza / Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley -- Archaeobotanical investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi / Ingrid Heijen -- Prehistoric plant use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain): an example of the disappearance of agriculture in an isolated environment / Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodrøguez and Águedo Marrero -- Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa: developing a database for North Africa, the Sahara and the Sahel / Ruth Pelling -- The archaeobotany of farming communities in South Africa: a review / Alexander Antonites, Annie Raath Antonites -- Linguistic evidence and the origins of food production in Africa: where are we now? / Christopher Ehret -- African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history / Roger Blench -- Leaving a lasting impression: arable economies and cereal impressions in Africa and Europe / Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller -- The use of plants in iron production: insights from smelting remains from Buganda / Louise Iles. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791224403321 |
| Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press, Inc., , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Archaeology of African plant use / / editors, Chris J. Stevens [and three others]
| Archaeology of African plant use / / editors, Chris J. Stevens [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press, Inc., , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Disciplina | 561.196 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
StevensChris J
FullerDorian Q |
| Collana | Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London |
| Soggetto topico |
Plant remains (Archaeology) - Africa
Agriculture, Prehistoric - Africa Antiquities, Prehistoric - Africa Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-315-43399-0
1-315-43401-6 1-61132-976-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | African archaeobotany expanding : an editorial / Dorian Q. Fuller, Sam Nixon, Chris J. Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. Fuller -- Holocene vegetation change and land use at Ounjougou, Mali / Barbara Eichhorn and Katharina Neumann -- Early agro-pastoralism in the Middle Senegal Valley: the botanical remains from Walaldé / Shawn Sabrina Murray and Alioune Déme -- Humans and the mangrove in southern Nigeria / Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie and M. Adebisi Sowunmi -- Plant and land use in southern Cameroon between 400 BC and AD 400 / Stefanie Kahlheber, Alexa Höhn and Katharina Neumann -- Wild trees in the subsistence economy of early Bantu speech communities: a historical-linguistic approach / Koen Bostoen -- Archaeobotany of two Middle Kingdom cult chambers at North Saqqara, Egypt / Ahmed Gamal-El-Din Fahmy, Nozomu Kawai and Sakuji Yoshimura -- Botanical insights into the life of an ancient Egyptian village: excavation results from El-Amarna / Chris J. Stevens and Alan J. Clapham -- Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia: the impact of the savannah package / Dorian Q. Fuller -- Islands of agriculture on Victoria Nyanza / Andrew Reid and Ceri Ashley -- Archaeobotanical investigations of the Iron Age Lundu State, Malawi / Ingrid Heijen -- Prehistoric plant use on La Palma Island (Canary Islands, Spain): an example of the disappearance of agriculture in an isolated environment / Jacob Morales, Amelia Rodrøguez and Águedo Marrero -- Patterns in the archaeobotany of Africa: developing a database for North Africa, the Sahara and the Sahel / Ruth Pelling -- The archaeobotany of farming communities in South Africa: a review / Alexander Antonites, Annie Raath Antonites -- Linguistic evidence and the origins of food production in Africa: where are we now? / Christopher Ehret -- African agricultural tools: implications of synchronic ethnography for agrarian history / Roger Blench -- Leaving a lasting impression: arable economies and cereal impressions in Africa and Europe / Meriel McClatchie and Dorian Q. Fuller -- The use of plants in iron production: insights from smelting remains from Buganda / Louise Iles. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820967603321 |
| Walnut Creek, California : , : Left Coast Press, Inc., , [2014] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Droughts, food, and culture [[electronic resource] ] : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory / / edited by Fekri A. Hassan
| Droughts, food, and culture [[electronic resource] ] : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory / / edited by Fekri A. Hassan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2002.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina | 960/.1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HassanFekri A |
| Soggetto topico |
Prehistoric peoples - Food - Africa
Agriculture, Prehistoric - Africa Climatic changes - Africa Paleoclimatology - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-20034-0
9786610200344 0-306-47547-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Palaeoclimate, Food and Culture Change in Africa: An Overview -- Climatic Change -- Rapid Holocene Climate Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Climate During the Late Holocene in the Sahara and the Sahel: Evolution and Consequences on Human Settlement -- Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climatic Changes in the Central Sahara. The Case Study of the Southwestern Fezzan, Libya -- Late Holocene Climatic Fluctuations and Historical Records of Famine in Ethiopia -- Environmental and Human Responses to Climatic Events in West and West Central Africa During the Late Holocene -- Plant Cultivation -- Regional Pathways to Agriculture in Northeast Africa -- From Hunters and Gatherers to Food Producers: New Archaeological and Archaeobotanical Evidence from the West African Sahel -- Holocene Climatic Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Spread of Food Production from Southwest Asia to Egypt -- Sustainable Agriculture in a Harsh Environment: An Ethiopian Perspective -- Pastoralism -- The Evidence for the Earliest Livestock in North Africa: or Adventures with Large Bovids, Ovicaprids, Dogs and Pigs -- Cultural Responses to Climatic Changes in North Africa: Beginning and Spread of Pastoralism in the Sahara -- Dry Climatic Events and Cultural Trajectories: Adjusting Middle Holocene Pastoral Economy of the Libyan Sahara -- Food Security in Western and Central Africa During The Late Holocene: The Role of Domestic Stock Keeping, Hunting and Fishing -- Bovines in Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic Iconography -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Ecological Changes and Food Security in the Later Prehistory of North Africa: Looking Forward. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455000503321 |
| New York, : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002 | ||
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Droughts, food, and culture [[electronic resource] ] : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory / / edited by Fekri A. Hassan
| Droughts, food, and culture [[electronic resource] ] : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory / / edited by Fekri A. Hassan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2002.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina | 960/.1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HassanFekri A. <1943-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Prehistoric peoples - Food - Africa
Agriculture, Prehistoric - Africa Climatic changes - Africa Paleoclimatology - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-280-20034-0
9786610200344 0-306-47547-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Palaeoclimate, Food and Culture Change in Africa: An Overview -- Climatic Change -- Rapid Holocene Climate Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Climate During the Late Holocene in the Sahara and the Sahel: Evolution and Consequences on Human Settlement -- Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climatic Changes in the Central Sahara. The Case Study of the Southwestern Fezzan, Libya -- Late Holocene Climatic Fluctuations and Historical Records of Famine in Ethiopia -- Environmental and Human Responses to Climatic Events in West and West Central Africa During the Late Holocene -- Plant Cultivation -- Regional Pathways to Agriculture in Northeast Africa -- From Hunters and Gatherers to Food Producers: New Archaeological and Archaeobotanical Evidence from the West African Sahel -- Holocene Climatic Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Spread of Food Production from Southwest Asia to Egypt -- Sustainable Agriculture in a Harsh Environment: An Ethiopian Perspective -- Pastoralism -- The Evidence for the Earliest Livestock in North Africa: or Adventures with Large Bovids, Ovicaprids, Dogs and Pigs -- Cultural Responses to Climatic Changes in North Africa: Beginning and Spread of Pastoralism in the Sahara -- Dry Climatic Events and Cultural Trajectories: Adjusting Middle Holocene Pastoral Economy of the Libyan Sahara -- Food Security in Western and Central Africa During The Late Holocene: The Role of Domestic Stock Keeping, Hunting and Fishing -- Bovines in Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic Iconography -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Ecological Changes and Food Security in the Later Prehistory of North Africa: Looking Forward. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779958303321 |
| New York, : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Forgotten Africa : an introduction to its archaeology / / Graham Connah
| Forgotten Africa : an introduction to its archaeology / / Graham Connah |
| Autore | Connah Graham |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina | 960.1 |
| Soggetto topico | Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-40303-8
1-280-04815-8 0-203-51180-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Africa the birthplace of humanity; 2 Stone tools and adaptation the origins of the genus Homo; 3 Africa's gift to the world the earliest Homo sapiens; 4 Living off the land later hunter gatherers in Africa; 5 Putting ideas on stone the rock art of southern Africa; 6 Pictures from a lost world the rock art of the Sahara; 7 Producing food: early developments in North and West Africa; 8 Producing food adaptation in North East and East Africa; 9 The power of metal the origins of African iron working
10 Ancient Egypt 3000 years of achievement11 Nubia a meeting place of different people; 12 Aksum a trading metropolis on the Ethiopian Plateau; 13 Church and state survival in Ethiopia; 14 Opportunity and constraint the Lake Chad story; 15 Facing the Mediterranean: Carthaginian, Greek and Roman North Africa; 16 Qsar es Seghir front door to Europe front door to Africa; 17 Jenné jeno an early city on the Middle Niger; 18 Voyages in the Sahara |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451549403321 |
Connah Graham
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 | ||
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Forgotten Africa : an introduction to its archaeology / / Graham Connah
| Forgotten Africa : an introduction to its archaeology / / Graham Connah |
| Autore | Connah Graham |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina | 960.1 |
| Soggetto topico | Excavations (Archaeology) - Africa |
| ISBN |
1-134-40302-X
1-134-40303-8 1-280-04815-8 0-203-51180-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Africa the birthplace of humanity; 2 Stone tools and adaptation the origins of the genus Homo; 3 Africa's gift to the world the earliest Homo sapiens; 4 Living off the land later hunter gatherers in Africa; 5 Putting ideas on stone the rock art of southern Africa; 6 Pictures from a lost world the rock art of the Sahara; 7 Producing food: early developments in North and West Africa; 8 Producing food adaptation in North East and East Africa; 9 The power of metal the origins of African iron working
10 Ancient Egypt 3000 years of achievement11 Nubia a meeting place of different people; 12 Aksum a trading metropolis on the Ethiopian Plateau; 13 Church and state survival in Ethiopia; 14 Opportunity and constraint the Lake Chad story; 15 Facing the Mediterranean: Carthaginian, Greek and Roman North Africa; 16 Qsar es Seghir front door to Europe front door to Africa; 17 Jenné jeno an early city on the Middle Niger; 18 Voyages in the Sahara |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783869403321 |
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Connah Graham
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Les objets africains, ici et là-bas
| Les objets africains, ici et là-bas |
| Autore | Lambert Aurélien |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : L'Harmattan, 2014 |
| Collana | Logiques sociales Les objets africains, ici et láa-bas |
| Soggetto topico |
Cultural property - Collectors and collecting - Material culture - Africa
Africans - Collectors and collecting - Europe Art, African - Europe Ethnological museums and collections - Europe Ethnological museums and collections - Africa Regions & Countries - Africa History & Archaeology |
| ISBN | 2-336-70813-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Nota di contenuto | ; Prémière partie: Les objets en action. Les biens matériels africains : supports d'une passion occidentale -- Les Africains et leurs objets : entre traditions, religions et folklore. ; Deuxième partie: De l'appropriation à l'évaluation. Reconnaissance et quête d'authenticité -- La qualité des objets et son évaluation. -- ; Troisième partie: Commerce et patrimoine. Le commerce des objets africains : acteurs, lieux et fonctionnement -- Patrimoine et objets africains. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910153165603321 |
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Lambert Aurélien
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| [Place of publication not identified], : L'Harmattan, 2014 | ||
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The Management Of Cultural World Heritage Sites and Development In Africa : History, nomination processes and representation on the World Heritage List / / edited by Simon Makuvaza
| The Management Of Cultural World Heritage Sites and Development In Africa : History, nomination processes and representation on the World Heritage List / / edited by Simon Makuvaza |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (118 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.69 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Archaeological Heritage Management |
| Soggetto topico |
Archaeology
Cultural heritage Culture—Study and teaching Cultural Heritage Regional and Cultural Studies |
| ISBN | 1-4939-0482-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: An Overview of the History of the Nomination of Cultural World Heritage Sites in Africa -- Chapter 2: The Role of the African World Heritage Fund in the Conservation of African World Heritage Sites -- Chapter 3: The contribution of ICAHM to the nomination of African cultural World Heritage Sites on the World Heritage List through the Africa Initiative Program -- Chapter 4: African States Parties, Support, Constraints, Challenges and Opportunities for Managing Cultural World Heritage Sites in Africa -- Chapter 5: The Management of Cultural World Heritage Sites in Africa and their Contribution to the Development of the Continent -- Chapter 6: The Management of cultural World Heritage Sites in Africa and their Contribution to Sustainable Development in the Continent -- Chapter 7: World Heritage Sites, Culture and Sustainable Communities in Africa -- Chapter 8: The Administration of Cultural World Heritage Sites and their Contribution to the Economic Empowerment of Local Communities in Africa. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484896003321 |
| New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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Material explorations in African archaeology / / Timothy Insoll
| Material explorations in African archaeology / / Timothy Insoll |
| Autore | Insoll Timothy |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (488 p.) |
| Soggetto topico | Archaeology - Africa - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-19-106222-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; Material Explorations in African Archaeology ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables ; 1: Introduction: Material Explorations in African Archaeology ; 1.1 RATIONALE; 1.2 MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS; 1.2.1 Materiality; 1.2.2 Agency; 1.2.3 Relational Archaeology, Entanglement, and Bundling ; 1.3 RECURRING THEMES; 1.3.1 Memory; 1.3.2 Anomaly and the Exotic; 1.3.3 Metaphor and Metonym; 1.4 CONTENTS; 2: Bodies and Persons ; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 THE CARVED BODY; 2.2.1 Scarification and Cicatrization
2.2.2 Archaeological Implications of Scarification and Cicatrization 2.2.3 Dental Modification; 2.2.4 Lip and Other Piercing; 2.3 THE DECORATED BODY; 2.3.1 Body-Painting; 2.3.2 Hair-Styles; 2.3.3 Beads and Cowry Shells; 2.4 FIGURINES, BODIES, AGENCY, AND POWER; 2.4.1 Anomaly; 2.4.2 Internal Bodies and Figurine Agency; 2.4.3 Figurines as 'Fetishes'/Power Objects; 2.5 FIGURINES, FRAGMENTATION, AND PERSONHOOD ; 2.6 HUMAN BODY PARTS, HUMAN SACRIFICE, AND CANNIBALISM ; 2.7 HUMAN LIFE CYCLE; 2.7.1 The Archaeology of Birth, Infancy, and Childhood; 2.7.1.1 Birth; 2.7.1.2 Childhood 2.7.2 The Archaeology of Initiation2.7.2.1 Location and Structures; 2.7.2.2 Figurines; 2.7.2.3 Rock Art and Initiation; 2.8 CONCLUSIONS; 3: The Dead and the Ancestors ; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ANCESTOR CONCEPTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; 3.3 'GOOD' AND 'BAD' DEATH; 3.3.1 'Good' Death; 3.3.2 'Bad' Death; 3.4 MIDDENS AND 'POT CHILDREN; 3.4.1 Middens; 3.4.2 'Pot Children'; 3.5 CONSTRUCTING ANCESTORS; 3.6 BURIAL; 3.7 GRAVE GOODS; 3.8 DESICCATION; 3.9 EXPOSURE; 3.10 TRANSFORMATIVE STATES; 3.11 SECONDARY TREATMENT; 3.12 CURATION; 3.12.1 Wrapping 3.12.2 Comparative Wrapping3.12.3 Curation of Teeth; 3.13 SKULL CURATION AND TREATMENT; 3.13.1 Why Skulls?; 3.13.2 Skulls, Ritual, and Fragmentation; 3.14 ANCESTORS AND THE LIVING; 3.15 CONCLUSIONS; 4: Animals ; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANIMALS; 4.3 THE CULTURAL APPROPRIATION OF ANIMALS; 4.3.1 Perception, Metaphor, Metonym; 4.3.2 'Totem' and Taboo; 4.3.3 Anomaly; 4.3.4 Protective and Efficacious Properties; 4.3.5 Mythological Focus; 4.3.5.1 The Hippopotamus and the Songhai; 4.3.5.2 An Alternative Interpretation?; 4.4 THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANIMALS; 4.4.1 Sacrifice 4.4.1.1 Definition4.4.1.2 Sacrificial Division; 4.4.1.3 The Archaeology of Animal Sacrifice; 4.4.2 Animal (Cattle) Modification; 4.4.3 Archaeological Implications of Animal Modification; 4.5 CONCLUSIONS; 5: Stone ; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 STANDING STONES AND MEGALITHIC STRUCTURES ; 5.2.1 Distribution; 5.2.2 Standing Stones, Megalithic Structures, Ancestors, and the Dead ; 5.2.2.1 Stone and the Dead; 5.2.2.2 Stones as Ancestors; 5.2.3 Standing Stones and the Living; 5.2.4 Standing Stones as Utilitarian Phenomena; 5.3 RAIN-MAKING AND RAIN-STONES 5.4 UNUSUAL PROPERTIES, FORMS, AND QUALITIES OF STONE |
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Insoll Timothy
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| New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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